Privacy Policy

We at sieger design GmbH & Co. KG would like to thank you for your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is important to us. The following text contains comprehensive information about how we handle your data.

Data controller

Managing director: Christian Sieger
sieger design GmbH & Co. KG
Schloss Harkotten
48336 Sassenberg
Germany
Phone +49 5426 9492-20

Data protection officer

Great Oak Datenschutz GmbH & Co. KG
Florian Schirm
Ruhrstraße 18
59955 Winterberg
Germany
Phone +49 2985 99 99 69 0
https://www.great-oak-datenschutz.de

Use of personal data

Personal data such as names, email addresses and postal addresses will only be collected, stored or processed within the scope of legal provisions or if you voluntarily submit these details to us. Your personal data will only be transmitted to third parties if you have given us permission to do so or where doing so is required in order to fulfil the purpose for which you submitted the data to us.

Purpose of processing

Purpose A: logging visits to the website based on IP addresses in order to analyse the number of visitors and which pages they visit

Purpose B: logging system events with IP addresses in order to fix any bugs

Purpose C: collecting information submitted via the contact form (title(s), first name, surname, company, postal address, telephone number, fax number and email address) in order to contact visitors at their request

Purpose D: collecting email addresses and possibly titles, first names and surnames for the purpose of sending newsletters to recipients at their request, logging subscriptions based on IP addresses in order to prevent subscriptions by third parties and storing data relating to specific individuals in order to optimise content and technical implementation (see “Newsletter” below)

Purpose E: logging visits to the website based on cookies in order to statistically analyse user visits and optimise technical implementation (see “Cookies” and “Web analysis” below)

Legal basis for processing

Data for purposes A, B and E is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Data for purposes C and D is processed on the basis of the freely given consent of the person who submitted it via the contact form in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR – consent of data subject in accordance with Article 4 (2) (11) GDPR.

Legitimate interests of the processor

For purpose A: the website is used to obtain new contractual partners and communicate information to interested individuals. Data is collected for purpose A in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of the site and optimise it on the basis of this data.

For purpose B: in order to be able to ensure the technical availability of the site at all times, system events are logged and analysed. IP addresses are collected for all events so that any deliberately caused events can be detected and prevented.

For purpose E: the website is used to obtain new contractual partners and communicate information to interested individuals. Data is collected for purpose E in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of the site and optimise it on the basis of this data.

Recipients of data

For purposes A, B, C and E: the data will not be made available to third parties. However, it may be accessed by the data processor we have contracted to manage the hosting, operation and development of this website – incognito GmbH & Co. KG, Peter Camps, Dortmunder Straße 47, 48155 Münster, Germany.

For purpose D: we work with our partner company rapidmail GmbH, Augustinerplatz 2, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, whose newsletter software is used for technical implementation of email delivery as requested by you, and for logging of data. Furthermore, it may be accessed by the data processor we have contracted to manage the hosting, operation and development of this website and the sieger design newsletters – incognito GmbH & Co. KG, Peter Camps, Dortmunder Straße 47, 48155 Münster, Germany.

Retention period

Purpose A: 12 months
Purpose B: 12 months
Purpose C: 6 months
Purpose D: For duration of newsletter subscription and for two years after unsubscription in order to meet our accountability obligations
Purpose E: 6 months

Our social media activities

We have pages on a number of social media platforms so that we can communicate with you there too and share information about our products and services. If you visit one of our social media pages, we and the provider of the respective social media platform are joint controllers with respect to any data processing resulting from your visit, as per Article 26 GDPR.

We are not the primary provider of these platforms but only use them within the scope of possibilities afforded to us by each provider, and so by way of precaution we should note that your data may be processed outside the European Union/European Economic Area. This means that using social media may involve data privacy risks, as the exercise of your rights to information, to erasure, to lodge an objection, etc. may be impeded and data generated by using social media is often directly processed by the provider for advertising purposes or to analyse user behaviour, without us having any control over this. If the provider creates profiles of user behaviour, they will often also use cookies or associate your user behaviour with the user profile that you created yourself for that social media platform.

The personal data processing operations described here are performed on the basis of our and the respective provider’s legitimate interests, as per Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, in order to communicate with you via modern channels and to share information about our services. In cases where a provider requires you as a user to give consent to the processing of your data, the lawful basis of processing will be Article 6(1)(a) GDPR in conjunction with Article 7 GDPR.

As we have no access to the data held by the providers, please note that if you wish to exercise your rights (to information, to erasure, to lodge an objection, etc.) it would be best to contact the respective provider directly. Below, we provide further information on how each of the providers we use process your social media data:

Facebook

(Joint) controller for data processing in Europe:
Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy Policy:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Facebook Insights

Facebook Insights gives us access to statistical data on visits and visitors to our page and/or posts. This data is created by Facebook during your visit to our Facebook page and/or posts. We cannot disable this function and have no control over the type of statistics or how they are produced.

This statistical data provides us with information about reach and engagement (how many people have seen our posts and the number of reactions, comments and shares), user activity (visits to our pages, clicks on buttons), audience (demographic information such as users’ age, gender and location), impressions (how many people visited the page and which sections they viewed) and posts (how many people viewed individual posts and how they reacted). For further details, please see the Facebook Privacy Policy (linked above).

Engagement

You can engage with us when you visit our page and/or posts, for instance by writing to us directly or commenting on, reacting to or sharing our posts. When you engage with us in these ways, we process personal data such as your username and the time of the engagement. In such cases, we learn the name of your Facebook user account and can see any information you have made visible to us, in accordance with the Facebook Terms of Service that all Facebook users agree to.

Further details and privacy settings (e.g. cookies and ad preferences) can be found in your Facebook profile under Settings & privacy > Settings > Ads:
https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings

Instagram

(Joint) controller for data processing in Germany:
Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy Policy:
https://instagram.com/legal/privacy

Instagram Insights

Instagram Insights gives us access to statistical data on visits and visitors to our page and/or posts. This data is created by Instagram during your visit to our Instagram page and/or posts. We cannot disable this function and have no control over the type of statistics or how they are produced.

This statistical data provides us with information about reach and engagement (how many people have seen our posts and the number of reactions, comments and shares), user activity (visits to our pages, clicks on buttons), audience (demographic information such as users’ age, gender and location), impressions (how many people visited the page and which sections they viewed) and posts (how many people viewed individual posts and how they reacted). For further details, please see the Instagram Privacy Policy (linked above).

Engagement

You can engage with us when you visit our page and/or posts, for instance by writing to us directly or commenting on, reacting to or sharing our posts. When you engage with us in these ways, we process personal data such as your username and the time of the engagement. In such cases, we learn the name of your Facebook user account and can see any information you have made visible to us, in accordance with the Facebook Terms of Service that all Facebook users agree to.

Further details and privacy settings (e.g. cookies and ad preferences) can be found in your Instagram profile under settings:
https://www.instagram.com/ads/settings

TikTok

(Joint) controller for data processing in Germany:
TikTok Technology Limited, a company registered in the Republic of Ireland with registered office at 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland and company number 635755 which is operated by Beijing Bytedance Technology Ltd. 48 Zhichun Lu Jia, Haidan Qu, Beijing, PR China.

Privacy Policy:
https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/en

TikTok Insights

TikTok Insights gives us access to statistical data on visits and visitors to our page and/or videos. This data is created by TikTok during your visit to our TikTok page and/or videos. We cannot disable this function and have no control over the type of statistics or how they are produced.

This statistical data provides us with information about reach and engagement (how many people have seen our videos and the number of reactions, comments and shares), user activity (visits to our pages, clicks on buttons), audience (demographic information such as users’ age, gender and location), impressions (how many people visited the page and which sections they viewed) and videos (how many people viewed individual posts and how they reacted). For further details, please see the Instagram Privacy Policy (linked above).

Engagement

You can engage with us when you visit our page and/or videos, for instance by writing to us directly or commenting on, reacting to or sharing our videos. When you engage with us in these ways, we process personal data such as your username and the time of the engagement. In such cases, we learn the name of your TikTok user account and can see any information you have made visible to us, in accordance with the TikTok Terms of Service that all TikTok users agree to.

Further details and privacy settings (e.g. cookies and ad preferences) can be found in your Instagram profile under settings:
https://www.tiktok.com/setting

LinkedIn

(Joint) controller for data processing in Europe:
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

Privacy Policy:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We use the platform LinkedIn to publicise our company and post current job vacancies. We also use LinkedIn to connect with existing and prospective customers. sieger design also runs a discussion group on relevant topics.

Engagement

You can engage with us when you visit our page and/or posts, for instance by writing to us directly or commenting on, reacting to or sharing our posts. When you engage with us in these ways, we process personal data such as your username and the time of the engagement. In such cases, we learn the name of your LinkedIn user account and can see any information you have made visible to us, in accordance with the LinkedIn Terms of Service that all LinkedIn users agree to.

Further details and privacy settings (e.g. cookies and ad preferences) can be found in your LinkedIn profile under Settings & Privacy > Data Privacy:
https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/categories/privacy

YouTube

(Joint) controller for data processing in Europe:
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

Privacy Policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy

We use the video platform YouTube to publish our videos. sieger design has no control over the collection or further use of data by the platform operator. Information about how and for what purposes YouTube/Google processes your data can be found in their Privacy Policy (linked above).

XING (New Work SE)

(Joint) controller for data processing in Germany:
New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany

Privacy Policy:
https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

Request data disclosure report:
https://www.xing.com/settings/privacy/data/disclosure

We use the platform XING to publicise our company and post current job vacancies. We also use XING to connect with existing and prospective customers.

Engagement

You can engage with us when you visit our page and/or posts, for instance by writing to us directly or commenting on, reacting to or sharing our posts. When you engage with us in these ways, we process personal data such as your username and the time of the engagement. In such cases, we learn the name of your XING user account and can see any information you have made visible to us, in accordance with the XING Terms of Service that all XING users agree to.

Further details and privacy settings (e.g. tracking) can be found in your XING profile under Settings
> Privacy: https://www.xing.com/settings/privacy/data/

Storage of your social media data

We will erase any data that we (sieger design) have control over if you withdraw your consent, except where we are legally required to retain that data.

The period for which different social media platform providers store your data may vary. Generally, your data will be erased after you delete your user account for a given platform. If you would like more detailed information on each provider’s data erasure policy, please see their individual privacy policies.

Recipients of social media data

sieger design will not share your data with third parties. If you wish to know who your data for a given social media platform will be shared with, please see the platform operator’s privacy policy.

Rights of data subjects

As a data subject, you can exercise the following data protection rights free of charge:
a) You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (right of withdrawal).
b) You can, at any time, request access to all data relating to you that we have stored (right of access).
c) You can, at any time, request the erasure of data, provided that we are not legally or contractually obliged to retain it (right to erasure).
d) You can, at any time, request that the scope of data processing be restricted to certain areas (right to restriction of processing).
e) You can object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your data for reasons of public interest or the processor’s legitimate interests (right to object).
f) You have the right to demand at any time that inaccurate data concerning you be rectified (right to rectification).
g) You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to have this data transmitted to another controller (right to data portability).

Right to lodge a complaint

Every data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in the country of his or her habitual residence or with the authority responsible for the operator of this site. The following supervisory authority is responsible for the operator of this site:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
North Rhine-Westphalia
Post office box 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone +49 211 38424-0
Fax +49 211 38424-10
Email:

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance its functionality dependent upon your browser settings. Cookies are text files that are temporarily stored on your computer’s hard drive. If the server hosting our website is visited again, then the Web browser sends the previously received cookie back to the server. Cookies make it possible to collect specific information about your visit to our website (e.g. date, time, page accessed). If you wish to disable the storage of cookies, you can do this by adjusting your browser settings. With cookies disabled, however, it may not be possible to use the website fully. By using our website with the corresponding settings for saving cookies enabled, you consent to our using these cookies.

Web analysis

Our website uses Matomo (www.matomo.org), a piece of open-source software that produces statistical analyses of user visits. Matomo also uses cookies to allow it to analyse users’ usage of the website. The information about website usage that is obtained from the cookies is saved on our server in Germany. The IP address is anonymised immediately after processing and before the processed data is saved. You can also prevent cookies from being installed by selecting the corresponding setting in your browser. Furthermore, you can select the following option to prevent Matomo from carrying out any analysis of your usage:

You are not being tracked. JavaScript is deactivated in your browser, but this is required by the tracking system to record your visits. Please note that your visits may be recorded again as soon as you activate JavaScript. In this case, reload the page to check the status.

Newsletter

You can subscribe to a newsletter via the website. If you subscribe to a newsletter, your email address – and if desired your title(s), first name and surname – will be used for the purpose of sending you personalised messages, invitations and information about new projects, concepts and events, until such a time as you unsubscribe. A confirmation process is used to activate your subscription. We will not begin emailing you the newsletter until you have confirmed your subscription. Your data is not transferred to third parties, with the exception of partner companies who are responsible for technical implementation of email delivery as requested by you. The data transferred to these companies is limited to the scope necessary for these purposes. In order to prevent third parties subscribing using your name, we are legally required to store the IP address and time of your newsletter confirmation. So as to continuously optimise content and technical implementation, we collect data relating to specific individuals, including data on email delivery, whether emails are marked as spam, opening and click rates for each recipient including precise times, and unsubscriptions. Clicked links (click map), country of origin and the devices and email clients that users use are analysed in anonymised form. If you wish to end your subscription and stop receiving newsletters, you can cancel your newsletter subscription at any time with future effect. You simply need to send a message using the contact details below. There is also an unsubscribe link in every newsletter email.

Use of Web fonts

To display our websites, we use external, licensed fonts from typography.com, Hoefler & Co., 611 Broadway, Room 725, New York, NY 10012-2608, as well as from fonts.com and myfonts.com, which are part of the company Monotype Imaging Inc., 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801. For invoicing and licence control, the respective companies register the fact that the websites are called up and log the number of hits. According to company information, no personal data concerning website visitors are saved. We have no influence regarding the nature or scope of this data processing. For more information, see the data protection notices of typography.com and monotype.com, which you can access here:

Typography
https://www.typography.com/home/privacy-cloud-declaration.php

Monotype
https://www.monotype.com/legal/privacy-policy/web-font-tracking-privacy-policy

Contact

sieger design GmbH & Co. KG
Schloss Harkotten
48336 Sassenberg
Germany

Phone +49 5426 9492-0
Fax +49 5426 9492-89